In fact, Su Ming had been hesitant before about which route the paper puppet should take in the future.
Should I follow the legion style of the sea of puppets, or should I follow the extreme strong man style?
After all, no matter which one of these two roads is taken, a huge amount of resources will be consumed.
When Su Ming was in the Qi training stage, he once thought about using quantity to make up for the lack of quality, but that was because he could only refine puppets at the Qi training level at that time. He had no choice but to accumulate quantity to increase his strength.
And actually.
The strength of a single sword fairy puppet is much stronger than the sword, shield and bow and arrow puppets at the Qi training level.
Su Ming once conducted an experiment. He asked more than a hundred paper puppets with the limit of Qi training to besiege the Sword Immortal puppet. In the end, they couldn't even break through the opponent's defense.
You must know that the Sword Immortal Puppet is only as strong as the late Foundation Establishment Stage. Looking at all the Foundation Establishment Stage monks, it is far from being invincible.
Even so, if more than a hundred paper puppets with the ultimate Qi training abilities come together, none of them can be a match for the Sword Immortal Puppet.
It can be seen that once the strength reaches a certain level, quantity cannot make up for the gap in quality, and they are not even qualified to be cannon fodder.
Counting all the sects in Daqian, the strength of any sect is not measured by the number of monks at the bottom.
Whether a sect is strong or not depends first on how powerful the strongest person in the sect is.
Secondly, let’s look at how many top experts there are in this sect.
These two are the most direct factors in measuring the strength of a sect.
As for how many ordinary disciples, including genius disciples, there are at the bottom of the sect, it can only mean whether the sect has potential in the future.
But who can say clearly what will happen in the future?
Without the present, there is no future.
Now, Su Ming has the Wordless Heavenly Book in his hand, and is about to receive an endless stream of resources, which is completely enough for him to become a top powerhouse, and to protect the financial resources of Guangyuan Island.
It can also become the most powerful trump card in Su Ming's hand.
“Since you want to become the most powerful trump card, you have to put all your effort into building it!”
Su Ming looked at the Hall of Immortals in his hand and finally made up his mind.
"As the paper puppet continues to advance, the spiritual puppet technique will inevitably be promoted to magical power. There is no doubt about this."
Su Ming thought silently, "The spirit puppet technique is the core technique of the paper puppet, and it will also become the core magical power of the paper puppet in the future. However, the spirit puppet technique alone is far from enough."
Su Ming thought little by little.
"The Sword Immortal Puppet follows the path of sword cultivators in attacking Wushuang. This can only be said to have advantages and disadvantages.
Before I made the Sword Immortal Puppet, I used the Sword Immortal Puppet as an assassin. One hit could not cover a thousand miles.
But it's different now. I want to build a strong man who can suppress the entire Guangyuan Island and make all forces dare not covet Guangyuan Island.
This means we can no longer use the idea of creating a sword fairy puppet, and just run away if you can't defeat it."
Su Ming thought secretly, "What I want to build now is a powerful person that can absolutely suppress the situation. Invincibility at the same level is the most basic requirement.
Moreover, it has many tricks and is extremely difficult to deal with. Even monks with higher cultivation level will frown and shake their heads when they see it."
Having requirements for the new type of puppet that was about to be built, Su Ming gradually had a vague impression of this new type of puppet. It would be best if it was the kind of figure that could dominate the entire audience by one person.
And since it is this kind of character, the appearance of the paper man is not suitable, and the current appearance must be changed.
Su Ming immediately thought that the paper farmers on Guangyuan Island were also dissatisfied with their appearance.
This is normal. If Su Ming were to look like a paper man every day, he would also feel unmotivated.
The farmers of Guangyuan Island can still survive now because they were rescued from the abyss of death by Su Minmin, and they are in awe of Su Ming in their hearts.
But this awe will disappear little by little as time goes by.
Therefore, Su Ming must continue to give the paper farmers a little bit of sweetness before they become passive and slow down their work.
Changing the appearance was one of Su Ming's ideas.
In fact, Su Ming himself was a little disgusted with the appearance of the paper puppets, but he had always tolerated it in view of the paper puppets' powerful strength.
Now that the Wordless Heavenly Book has been promoted to a magic weapon, and he will soon have massive resources in his hands, Su Ming has enough confidence to complete his dream.
Thinking of this, Su Ming began to take out a jade slip and record the conditions of the paper puppet he was going to create.
"First, a supernatural level spiritual puppet technique, and it must have the ability to completely transform into a human body."
"Second, deduce a magical power that enhances the physical body to further enhance the defense of the new type of puppet."
"Third, further strengthen the connection between the Hall of Immortals and the new type of puppet, and promote the mind differentiation technique to a magical power."
"Fourth, the magical power that conceals the secrets of heaven."
After writing the fourth point on the jade slip, Su Ming paused.
In fact, concealing the secrets was Su Ming's idea to completely transform this puppet into a living monk in the eyes of the world.
There is usually only one way for a monk to identify whether the humanoid creature in front of him is human, and that is through spiritual detection.
And this method of concealing the secret of heaven is to prevent monks from using their spiritual consciousness to explore its details.
Although under normal circumstances, monks will not directly use their spiritual consciousness to detect another person, the enemy will not care about you so much.
If they were to become enemies with the puppet created by Su Ming, they would definitely use their spiritual sense to explore it.
At this time, the magical power of concealing the secrets that Su Ming deduced can come into play, that is, to conceal the identity.
Not only can it conceal its own identity, but it can also conceal the Immortal Hall and Su Ming behind it.
In his opinion, this is the greatest role of this magical power that conceals the secrets of heaven.
With it, Su Ming is equivalent to having a super powerful clone that can move freely within the control range of the Hall of Immortals.
And it’s still a clone that doesn’t worry about causing trauma to the original body after it falls.
In the world of immortality, there are powerful monks who have created the method of clone.
But these clones are all cultivated using the method of dividing souls.
There are two major drawbacks to the clones cultivated using the soul-splitting method.
First, the clone's strength cannot surpass that of the original.
Second, the death of the clone will cause irreparable trauma to the soul of the original being.
Therefore, if it is not necessary in the world of cultivating immortals, few people will practice this kind of clone method that is not worth the gain.
But the spirit puppet clone that Su Ming wants to create is different. Not only is its strength far superior to Su Ming, but even if it dies, it will not cause any harm to Su Ming himself.
This is equivalent to Su Ming secretly hiding a super strong person to secretly clear the obstacles for his practice.
This is also the real reason why Su Ming has been hiding behind the scenes on Guangyuan Island during this period of time.
Su Ming had long thought that this puppet would stand in front of the stage for him regarding Guangyuan Island's industry.
Shaking his head, Su Ming continued to add new ideas to the jade slips.
"There are also magical powers for offense, magical powers for defense, magical powers for life-saving, and magical powers for controlling the enemy."
Su Ming paused, "This puppet has no soul, so there is no need to prepare the soul to defend against magical powers."
He looked at each magical power densely recorded on the jade slips, as well as the specific requirements for each magical power. Su Ming couldn't help but feel his scalp numb.
A total of eight magical powers!
"By the way, although the paper puppet can be strengthened into a magic weapon through strengthening points, its quality will definitely not be too high among magic weapons. I will also use strengthening points to breed a magical power.
There are not so many strengthening points to strengthen the paper puppet itself, so I have to find some precious materials to integrate into the paper puppet to make its body stronger."
As for what kind of material to choose to incorporate into the paper puppet, Su Ming had already thought about it, and that was Bi Xin Mu Zhi Ya.
Legend has it that the Bixin Mu was a branch of a tree built in the upper realm that fell into the lower realm, took root and sprouted in the lower realm, and finally grew into a towering giant tree, supporting the Holy Land Cave.
In the world of cultivating immortals, Bixin Mu Zhiya is one of the best materials for refining clones and puppets. It is also one of the top materials for refining wood attribute magic weapons.
It's a pity that this thing is only produced in the Holy Land, and there are very few green heart wood branches living in the outside world.
But what a coincidence is that Xianxia Sect happens to have this kind of Bixin Muzhiya in stock.
Of course, the price of redeeming it is also quite high.
Su Ming didn't even know if he could redeem it with his authority as a disciple such as Outer Sect A.
If it cannot be redeemed, then Su Ming can only create the puppet first, and then re-sacrifice and strengthen the puppet when he has the authority to redeem it for Bi Xin Mu Zhi Ya in the future.
"call!"
Su Ming exhaled a breath and sighed, "What a huge project!
However, once I create this spiritual puppet clone, it means that I will have a complete foundation in the Yaoyuan Water Realm.
Even if the situation between Dayuan Country and Daqian Country worsens in the future, with this powerful clone, I can still ensure the safety of myself and Xiaocai."
Once this clone is successfully created, it will have at least a golden elixir level combat power, and it is not an ordinary golden elixir level combat power.
According to Su Ming's idea, if this clone is completely perfected, it might really be invincible among the Golden Core cultivators.
In the Yaoyuan Water Realm, there are only a few Nascent Soul cultivators. Apart from these Nascent Soul masters, it may be the turn of Su Ming's spirit puppet clone.
Next, he asked this spirit puppet clone to join the Xianxia Sect as an outer sect elder.
By that time, even if the matter of attracting mortal souls to farm in Guangyuan Island is exposed, there will be no problem.
In fact, Su Ming was not the first to do puppet farming.
It's just that the effect has never been very good, so it hasn't been widely promoted in the world of immortality.
After all, puppets break, and when they do, they have to be repaired.
Moreover, the operation of the puppet requires spiritual stones and must be controlled by monks.
When all the costs of repairing and running the puppets are added together, it is not as cost-effective as letting the low-level casual cultivators plant spiritual fields.
This principle is very similar to how Su Ming's factory in his previous life preferred to use a large number of low-level labor force rather than upgrade machinery and equipment.
It’s not that it’s untechnical, it’s just that it’s not cost-effective.
Of course, Su Ming's paper puppets have several major advantages compared to ordinary puppets.
First, it does not require Su Ming to control it personally. This is the most fundamental premise, otherwise Su Ming would never earn spiritual stones by farming with paper puppets.
Second, the paper puppet is just a body, but inside it is a mortal soul. Since it is a mortal soul, they can learn.
Having the ability to learn is what Su Ming thinks is the most promising thing about paper puppet farming.
Because low-tech work such as cultivating spiritual fields is just the beginning of paper puppets, but it is far from their future.
In the Yaoyuan Water Realm, there are many industries where you can earn spiritual stones.
Su Ming has not been involved before, not because he doesn't want to get involved, but because he lacks the strength.
Those who easily get involved in industries that are monopolized by big families will become unrelenting enemies.
Su Ming doesn't have the strength to fight to the death with others right now.
Even if they couldn't find Su Ming hiding behind him, there would still be no problem in destroying Su Ming's Guangyuan Island.
Take the spiritual rice industry as an example. In fact, growing spiritual rice does not earn any spiritual stones at all.
This is also the reason why there are not many spiritual cultivators in Yaoyuanshui Realm and even in the entire Lanzhou who are willing to cultivate spiritual fields.
But by slightly extending the spiritual rice industry, more spiritual stones can be earned.
For example, selling spiritual wine.
Take Tianshu Island as an example.
The entire Tianshu Island has a population of about five million monks. With so many monks, the amount of spiritual wine consumed every day is simply astronomical.
Because spiritual wine is not only drunk by low-level monks, but also by high-level monks.
Moreover, with the wealth of high-level monks, the price of the spiritual wine they drink is even more terrifying.
After just one brewing process, the price of spiritual wine will be dozens of times higher than the price of the same weight of spiritual rice.
Even if it takes four to five kilograms of spiritual rice to brew one kilogram of spiritual wine, the price of spiritual wine is more than ten times the price of spiritual rice.
When such a hugely profitable industry was placed in front of Su Ming, wouldn't he be jealous?
of course not.
Whenever he was unable to use the Wordless Heavenly Book to deduce spells and magical powers due to lack of spiritual stones, he became extremely jealous of this hugely profitable industry, but he resisted.
On Tianshu Island, the largest spiritual wine supplier is the Yan family, known as the three golden elixirs of the family.
It can be said that in the entire Yaoyuanshui Realm, apart from the Xianxia Sect, there are few forces stronger than the Yan family.
The Yan family already belongs to the top few forces.
It is precisely because of such a powerful family that the Yan family dares to occupy at least 80% of Tianshu Island's spiritual wine sales share.
Relying on the income from spiritual wine every year, the Yan family makes a lot of money.
The spirit beast park that Su Ming and Chi Ling visited a few days ago was just built by the Yan family, which shows how powerful their family is.
It can be said that in the Yaoyuan Water Realm, as long as the Yan family does not compete with the Xianxia Sect, they have nothing to fear from any force.
Facing such a huge family, how could Su Ming dare to grab meat from their bowl?
The third advantage of paper puppets is that you don’t have to worry about damage.
With the immortal energy provided by the Hall of Immortals, the last thing Su Ming had to worry about was the damage to the paper puppets.
In summary, these three reasons gave Su Ming the confidence to use paper puppets to plant spiritual fields.
The other monks did not have the confidence that Su Ming had.
In the future, when the paper puppet farming is exposed, everyone will only think that the spirit puppet clone has a special method of making puppets that can offset the losses of puppet farming.
In fact, in the world of cultivating immortals, every cultivating family has its own unique technology that relies on its survival.
This is normal.
The Xianxia Sect would not pursue him too hard. After all, others did not understand the paper puppet technique, and no one knew how low the cost of Su Ming's cultivation of spiritual fields was.
Inside the cave.
Su Ming not only thought about the problem of creating a spiritual puppet clone, but also thought about the future development path.
He will follow two routes.
On the surface, the spirit puppet clone will manage various huge industries on Guangyuan Island on his behalf, and use the resources earned from these industries to continuously improve the strength of the spirit puppet clone.
Secretly, Su Ming was developing normally in the Xianxia Sect, working well as his first-class outer disciple, improving his cultivation, and gradually being promoted to an inner disciple.
He will no longer have any contact with the spirit puppet clone.
If things change in the future, this peerless strongman who has spent all his resources on Su Ming will become his last and most powerful trump card!
After planning everything, Su Ming recorded the contents in the jade slip in his mind, and then erased all the contents in the jade slip.
Finally, he crushed the jade slip into powder and burned it completely with the fire control technique.
"Now. Start building it!"
Su Ming took a deep breath, and his eyes burst into dazzling light.